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Contents

December 17, 1981 • Volume 28, Number 20

  • Lester C. Thurow

    Death by a Thousand Cuts e-edition

    Making America Work: Productivity and Responsibility by James O'Toole

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Back Issues e-edition

  • Joseph Brodsky

    The Berlin Wall Tune (poem)

  • Janet Malcolm

    Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing e-edition

    From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

  • Noel Annan

    The Triumph of Matthew Arnold e-edition

    Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan

  • Luc Sante

    Relic

    Elvis by Albert Goldman

    Private Elvis photographs by Rudolf Paulini, edited by Diego Cortez

  • James Fallows

    The Trap of Rearmament e-edition

    The Baroque Arsenal by Mary Kaldor

    Soviet Military Power by the US Department of Defense

    The East-West Strategic Balance by T.B. Millar

  • Helen Vendler

    All Too Real e-edition

    Work, for the Night Is Coming by Jared Carter

    A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 by Adrienne Rich

    One for the Rose by Philip Levine

  • Clive James

    That Old Black and White Magic e-edition

    Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard

    Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present edited by Vicki Goldberg

    Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi

    The Work of Atget, Vol. 1: Old France edited by John Szarkowski, edited by Maria Morris Hambourg

    The Autochromes of J.H. Lartigue, 1912-1927

    The Photography of Max Yavno text by Ben Maddow

    Feininger’s Chicago, 1941

    Cole Weston: Eighteen Photographs foreword by Ben Maddow, introduction by Charis Wilson

    American Photographers and the National Parks by Robert Cahn, by Robert Glenn Ketchum

    New England Reflections, 1882-1907 photographs by the Howes Brothers, edited by Alan B. Newman, foreword by Richard Wilbur, introduction by Gerald McFarland

    Man as Art: New Guinea photographs by Malcolm Kirk, text by Andrew Strathern

    Rajasthan: India’s Enchanted Land, introduction and photographs by Raghubir Singh, foreword by Satyajit Ray

    Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay by Mary Ellen Mark

    Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas

    Visions of China: Photographs by Marc Riboud, 1957-1980 introduction by Orville Schell

    The Russians by Vladimir Sichov

    William Klein: Photographs profile by John Heilpern

    Don McCullin: Hearts of Darkness introduction by John Le Carré

    Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1970 by Günter Metken, introduction by Stephen Spender

    Robert Rauschenberg Photographs

    John Pfahl: Altered Landscapes

    Sam Haskins/Photographics

    Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980 introduction by Michael Hiley

    Hollywood Color Photographs by John Kobal

    A Century of Japanese Photography by the Japan Photographers Association, introduction by John W. Dower

  • Rudolf Peierls

    One Culture e-edition

    The Physicists by C.P. Snow

  • Mary Gordon

    Poem for the End of the Year (poem) e-edition

  • Virgil Thomson

    Music Does Not Flow e-edition

  • Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

    Washington at War e-edition

    Washington Despatches 1941-1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy edited by H. G. Nicholas, introduction by Isaiah Berlin

  • Lincoln Kirstein

    Uncle Wiz the Wizard e-edition

    W.H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

  • Richard Cobb

    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie e-edition

    Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century by Bonnie G. Smith

  • John Keegan

    Empire Building e-edition

    Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s by Angus Calder

  • Alan Pryce-Jones

    The Clowning Victim e-edition

    Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions by Victoria Glendinning

    Edith Sitwell: A Biography by Geoffrey Elborn

  • Richard Wollheim

    The Professor Knows e-edition

    Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities by Stanley Fish

  • The Editors

    Short Reviews

    Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak

    Science in Traditional China: A Comparative Perspective by Joseph Needham

LETTERS

Contributors

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was a poet and one of most prominent figures of the Beat Generation. His epic poem “Howl,” which denounced bourgeois conformity and capitalistic greed, became the subject of a landmark obscenity trial in San Francisco. Known for his celebration of the marginalized and the downtrodden and his opposition to American militarism, Ginsberg drew inspiration from the long lines and anaphoric rhythms of Walt Whitman. His 1981 collection Plutonium Ode won the National Book Award; in 1993 Ginsberg was awarded the medal of Chevalier Des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. He is the author of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.

Grace Paley is a writer and a teacher, a feminist and an activist. Her books include The Collected Stories; Just as I Thought, which gathers personal and political essays and articles; and Begin Again: Collected Poems. She lives in New York City and Vermont.

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the most influential critics of her generation. Her books include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and The Volcano Lover.

Richard Cobb (1917-1996) fell in love with France when he first visited in 1935. He went on to write many works of history—some in French, some in English—about the French Revolution and occupied France.

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic.His books include Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel, Blind into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq, and China Airborne.

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. Among his books are Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, The Blaze of Obscurity, and A Point of View.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996) was a writer and ballet critic. In 1946, together with George Balanchine, Kirstein founded the Ballet Society, which would soon be renamed The New York City Ballet. In 1984 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She wrote about the trial of Mazoltuv Borukhova, the mother of Michelle, in her book Iphigenia in Forest Hills, just out in paperback. Her collection Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers will be published in the spring of 2013.


She lives in New York.

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) was an American historian and social critic. He served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. His Journals: 1952– 2000 were published in 2007.

Virgil Thomson (1896–1989) was a composer and critic. He collaborated extensively with Gertrude Stein, who wrote the libretti for his operas Four Saints in Three Actsand The Mother of Us All. In 1988 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)

Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 2013)